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PAGE FOUR
Tune In On KRBO
THE ABILENE REPORTERNEWS
Sunday Morning, March 17, 1940
Sunday Morn
Panama Canal
‘Is Vulnerable
To Single Raid’
West Texas News Briefs
RULE, March 16.—(Spl)—The where “no dumping'" signs have
Haskell county singing convention been placed.
acting postmaster at present in the
Borden county seat.
EASTLAND, March 16— (Spl) —
Feasibility of organization of a jun-
ior chamber of commerce in East-
land will be discussed Monday night
at a meeting of Eastland young bus-
iness and professional men. Jim
noon. March 17. with a program - Church of Christ of Rule is being Harvey, former president of the Cis-
co junior chamber of commerce,
will meet at Weinert Sunday after-
RULE,
March 16.—(Spl)—The
WASHINGTON March 16 — - |
A war department official estimate
that a single raid by as few as 24
hostile bombers might block the
Panama canal for months was dis-
closed today
of President Roosevelt's request for
a $15,000,000 appropriation to start
work on a $277,000,000 third set of
canal locks. The house struck the
item from the war department's
ranged that is expected to present repainted and re-papered this week,
some of the best singers and quar- The minister. Otta Johnson, is sup-
tets of this section, including the ervising planting of shade
well-known Stamps quartet. The shrubbery and flowers and later
program will begin at 3 o'clock.
trees.
Bermuda grass will be transplanted
civil functions appropriation A
house committee argued that so lit-
In testimony given the senate ap-
propriations committee behind clos-
ed doors. Brigadier General George
V Strong of the general staff added poned without delaying completion
that the dispatch of such a force of the locks four to six years hence
was “well within the capabilities of Strong contended that haste was
so essential in view of unsettled
world-conditions that "we will be
rtunate indeed if the vital need T
tie preliminary work had been done
that the expenditure could be post-
several foreign powers.”
Though the canal’s garrison has
been strongly reinforced since the
European war started, General
Strong reported that recent exhaus-
of assured -passage through the
canal does not confront us before
such construction can be complet-
tive studies and tests by military
officials had shown that air attacks ed."
could be “readily" launched dally The officer is director of the
from a single aircraft carrier or army’s war plans division.
from a- relatively small land air The war department believed, he
base said that the projected , third set
Even more feared, he said, is sab- of locks, to be reserved exclusively
otage particularly by a ship laden for the navy in an emergency,
with hidden explosives would reduce sabotage and bombing
Strong was testifying in support hazards by at least 50 percent
ANSON, March 18.—ISpll—An
improvement program to the Meth-
odist church here to cast approxi-
mately $1,000 will be inaugurated in
the near future Improvements will
consist of reworking the woodwork
and roof and painting and varnish-
Ing. The committee in charge is:
Knox Pittard, Mell S. Barkley and
Aubrey Dunwody. The Rev. C. C.
Armstrong is pastor.
ANSON, March 16.—(Spl)—Good
food and good hunting are promised
for a Friday rabbit drive in the
Plainview community March 22, ac-
cording to those in charge of the
drive, which will start at 8:30 a m.
from the Plainview store The drive
was originally set for March 19 but
was postponed. There will also be
a rabbit drive at Noodle Tuesday,
RULE, March 16.—(Spl)—Mrs. J.
E Parsons of Rule who had major
surgery at Stamford this week, is
reported to be improving. Her sis- Sunday,
ter, Mrs. Henry Hager of Clovis, New.
Mexico, was called to her bedside
the first of the week.
• SNYDER, March 16.—(Spl) -
Meeting at the Dunn store early
Tuesday morning people of the
Dunn community will stage a two-
day rabbit drive that will embrace
all parts of the southern Scurry
county community. A feature,of the
Tuesday-Wednesday hunt will be
dinner each day at Dunn, to be fur-
nished by people of the community.
Rabbit drive team captains are Wal-
ter Brown, Jack Byrd, Hugh Bil-
lingsley and Ruben Goodlett.
SNYDER.
March 16.— (Spl)—
March 19. On March 26 a drive will
be conducted in the Elliott and Women of the Hermleigh parish will
and several Jaycees of Cisco will be
present at the meeting and explain
operations of a junior chamber of
commerce.
ANSON, March 18—<SPD—A sing-
Ing convention will be held at the
Corinth Baptist church in Anson
Billy Ray Hale, second: Sam Smith
third. Other entrants: Freddie
Schultz, Arnold Walker, Kenneth’
George, Joe Button, J. B. Dean, Bill fa
Warner, Dewey Stephens. . 1
Awards to winners were sweaters
for-first prizes an. sleeve emblems 1
for seconds and thirds.
In a marble tournament at the
negro school playground Friday win-1
ners in the three classes were:
Class C, 8 to 11 years of age: 1
Claude Lewis: George Forkay, run- i
ner-up. Class B. 11 to 14 years: 1
Troy Lewis, Ronald Ward, runner- |
up. Class A. 14 to 21 years: Grady |
Wiley; Ernest Hatton, runner - up.
Earl Graves is director at this play-,
ground.
Alli
Hit
Sol
Record Field Entered for Third
Annual Big Spring Stock Show
ARCHBISHOP BLESSED — Having received, as a symbol of his
authority, the sacred pallium sent by Pope Pius XII, Archbishop
Francis J. Spellman (kneeling) receives a blessing from Dennis
Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia, who conferred the pallium
in a colorful ceremony at New York’s St. Patrick’s cathedral.
(AP Telemat).
Pleasant Hill communities south of
Anson.
BIG SPRING. March 16—SpD-
A record field was entered today
for the third annual Big Spring |
District 4-H club and Future Farm-
ers of America Livestock show
. which opens, here Monday for a
W Barnes, Texas A. & M college
extension service animal husband-
man and beef cattle specialist and
who advised with county agents and
vocational agriculture teachers here
STAMFORD, March 16.—(Spl)-
County and city authorities are co-
operating with civic organizations in
a concerted move here to clean-up
and beautify Stamford .by Texas
Cowboy Reunion time. July 2, 3, and
4 Latest improvements underway
are along the Albany highway with-
in city limits where side drainages
are being deepened, and at city park
land around College Lake drive
two day stand.
A total of 170 animals has been
listed by 110 club boys who have
fed out baby beeves, lambs, pigs and
brood sows ' Entered are 25 nurse
cow steers, 89 drylot calves 41 fat
wool lambs and several pigs and
sows
The show is to be staged in the
new Howard county warehouse,
erected at a cost of $6,000, and
which offers 10,000 square feet of
three years ago when the show was
[organized. -
Largest number of entries are
from Howard, Martin and Glass-
cock counties while Nolan county
is competing for the first time in
the history of the show. Other
counties with animals listed are
floor space for the animals.
Judge of the affair will oe George
Mitchell, Sterling and Borden.
Prize awards of $220 will be pre-
| sented to winners in the two divi- |
| sions of the milkfed and drylot;
calves, fat wool lambs, pigs and
brood sows and litters.
Hull Flatly Denies German Report That
Ambassador Kennedy Is in Hot Water at
London Over War Information Sent U. S.
WASHINGTON, March 16— (UP)
—Secretary of State Cordell Hull
today flatly denied Berlin reports
that U S Ambassador Joseph P
Kennedy at London had lost the
friendship of Great Britain by a
confidential report on Allied diffi-
culties in the war.
The report said Kennedy had dis-
pleased the British government and
as a result the government's rela-
tions toward him had cooled be-
cause of a confidential report he
was supposed to have rendered to
had sent to Washington a report
on the chances of the belligerents
which displeased the British gov-
ernment.
Essential points of the "report,"
the dispatch alleged, were:
1. Kennedy "blamed" Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain
and his government for “diplo-
matic blunders," especially the
British guarantee to Poland, as
having led to the "difficulties"
in which the Allies now “found
EA
NECK BROKEN, GIVES BIRTH TO soN— Mrs. Ilva Battaglia,
her broken neck encased in a special collar to keep her head im-
movable, gave birth to an 8-pound, 11-ounce boy in Baltimore.
She broke her neck in a fall a month previous to the birth of the
child, with whom she is shown. Mrs. Battaglia is a doctors wife.
(AP Telemat).
themselves."
the Amarican government. [ 2. Kennedy from the "political
Hull, plainly angered when he • viewpoint felt that the Allies had
read the report from Berlin, said "lost the war even before it start-
"This is clearly intended to be a ed
trouble-making story. It is wholly 3 Kennedy on the basis of im-
unsupported by any facts." pressions gained in London felt
State department officials added ‘compelled to state" that the west-
that Kennedy had rendered no such | *- no chance" of
report to this government as the winning, the war on Germany’s
W Berlin sources indicated he had If western front
the American ambassador had .It, was sai ording to
made such a report, these officials Kenneth’s alleged hat even
continued, its contents would not in the opinion of British and French
have been revealed in Berlin or in experts, Germany -enjoyed a clear
London. superiority in the air. Britain and
Mayor Resigns
At Stamford
Horton and Maudie May Penrose;
Quinton Barber and Mary Helen
Larsen: J T.’Weed and Wilda Ruth
Hale; S Pyland and Frances Bos-
% ell.
Officials said this government France were represented, the
had ample evidence that the Bri- agency said of the alleged report,
tish government liked Kennedy and as lacking an "economic setup to
. that there had been no evidence, overtake Germany’s lead in arma-
that this regard had cooled
changed.
or ments."
Kennedy was represented as hav-
ing doubted the efficacy of the
BERLIN March 16 — (UP) — A Briti h blockade and to have re-
German official news agency dis- ferred to alleged anxiety in finan-
patch from Amste rdam cited “con-
fidential information” today as
basis for an allegation that rela-
tions between Joseph P. Kennedy
Amtrican ambassador to Great
Britain, and the British govern-
ment had become strained.
Kennedy, the dispatch alleged,
to alleged anxiety in finan-
cial circles at losses caused by
German counter-measures."
Finally he was represented as
having reported that there was
pessimism among British financial
men and aristocrats lest a long
war weaken their “leadership in
British public life*
Houstonian Convicted in 'Mental Murder'
Of Wife Loses Fight for Freedom on Writ
FORT WORTH, March 16—(ur) |
—Thomaa F Whiteside, who went
- to prison from Houston in 1929 for
the "mental murder of his wife,
lost his fight for freedom on a writ
of habeas corpus, here today.
Judge Max M Rogers of Hunts-
ville remanded Whiteside to cus-
Whiteside forced her “by words,
gestures and threats,” to jump
from the window. Whiteside
said that she leaped when his
back was turned.
After four years‘in prison, White-
aide obtained a 60-day furlough,
STAMFORD. March 16—(Spl)-
Roscoe C. Thomas, whose official
appointment to postmastership of
Stamford has just been announced, |
resigned as Stamford’s mayor Fri-
day. The city council ordered his
unexpired term to be filled at the
April 3 election at the same time
three council members are to be
chosen.
Cleburne Huston, publisher of the ■
Stamford American since the fall
of 1925, and J T. W. Brown, for 15
years a resident of Stamford, are
announced candidates for the va-
cancy. —
Huston has had four years exper-
ience on the city council Brown
chose his 54th birthday to begin-
campaigning Friday He is a cafe
owner here.
Marriage Licenses
Issued in Callahan
BAIRD. March 18 — (HW)—Mrs
8 E Settle, county clerk has is-
sued licenses to the following couples
recently: William O. Hendrix and
Doris Norene Lancaster; Charles
Grigsby and Mrs Juanita Blue:
Robert L. Miller and Claurece Ames;
Marston Surles and Helen Virginia
Erwin; Robert Skinner and Louise
Clark; Morris Oliver and Mrs Ar-
thur Rudd; Jack Sims and Mary
Joe Moreland; Preston McCall and
Anita White; J M Jarvis and Sar-
ah Kate Garnett; James W. Apple-
ton and Bernice Ruby Long; B L.
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tody of prison authorities. Although
keenly disappointed, Whiteside-
who has established a profitable
magazine-writing business while in
prison—indicated that he will drop
his fight for release.
during which he broke into the
physician's office here. He was
sentenced to 20 years in prison for
that crime also The convict de-
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clared that a craving for narcotics
Whiteside 38-year-old former at- prompted him to commit the burg-
torney, said in his petition that he 1 _,
was entitled to parole because a lary, but said he now is cured of
robbery sentence and the slaying
sentence, assessed against him in
FURNITURE
How One Woman
Lost 26 Lbs. of FAT
FAT GIRLS—HERE'S A TIP
NEW YORK--Special, in 40 days
Mrs Helga Blaugh reduced 26 lbs.
, Took 4 inches off hips, 3 inches off
There is one goal in the center of bust and 714 inches off waist,
the circle, similar to a basketball Writes: "I feel fine and look 10
goal except that there are three yrs. younger.” *
sections to it. and the ball may pass
through either. Scoring and rules
on fouls are similar to basketball.
A city-wide marble tournament
will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at
City Playgrounds
Introduce New Game
An innovation among games was
made yesterday morning by the staff
of the city WPA recreation pro-
gram at high school gymnasium. It
Is "uni-goal.” It is played on a cir-
cular field, 30 feet in diameter.
Central school ground.
stage a bake sale at the Jackson An Easter egg hunt will be held
building in" Hermleigh March 23, at 8 a m. Saturday at Cobb park.
derived from the sale to Goody twirler contestswill be
with funds derived from the sale to
be used for the benefit of St. Johns
Evangelistic Catholic church.
SNYDER. March 16— (Spl) — An-
nouncement that applications for
the fourth class postmaster’s posi-
tion at Gail must be in the hands of
the U. S. civil service commission at
Washington not later than March
22 was made this week by the com-
mission. Mrs. Thelma Wilson is
held this week at each playground.
Playground periods are 3 to 7 p.m.
In twirler contests Friday the re-
sults were:
Locust: Lockett Turner, first:
John Brooks, second: Paul Bailey
third. Other entrants, J. L. Baker,
Jack Wood, Joe Button, Everett Mc-
Gehee, Leonard Jones, Walter Mc-
Carty.
Travis: Walter McCarty, first:
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to lose your double chin and your
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and along with ft get the increase
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much you weigh. Take a half teaspoonful
of Kruschen in a glass of hot water first
thing every morning to gently activate
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Then after 30 days, weigh yourself again
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let's lift the long, handsome hood and get down
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Here’s the heart of this car—that famous V-8
engine—eight cylinders—count ’em!
No other car in the low-price field has a power
plant like that!
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why Ford topped all standard-equipped cars in its
class in the 1940 Gilmore-Yosemite Economy Run.
Last, but not least, there’s price. With practi-
Tarrant and Harris counties re-
spectively. were intended to run
concurrently.
Acting today as his own attorney.
Whitesides pleaded that he was
confined “illegally" in prison. A
20-year robbery sentence assessed
against him here in 1933, he said,
was based on the same set of facts
as two previous convictions for
burglary and theft The charges
grew out of a robbery at a physi-
clan’s office while Whiteside was on
furlough.
He was given a 20-year sen-
tence in Harris county In 1929
after a long legal fight follow-
ins the death of his 24-year-old
wife, the mother of three chil-
dren. She died Aug. 8, 1927,
two months after her spine was
injured in a fan from their
second - floor Houston apart-
ment
The state contended that
the habit.
Few inmates of the Texas prison
system have been as colorful as
Whiteside. During 1931, in the
prison office, he altered commit-
ment papers to reduce the sen-
tences of convict-friends a total of
900 years. The forgeries were dis-
covered before any of the inmates '
benefited from his deed. Two years
ago, Whiteside walked away from I
a prison farm. A few days later,
he telephoned the prison manager
from New Orleans that he was
ready to return.
During the last few years, White-
side has written several stories and
poems for magazines publishing de-
tective stories.
Judge Rogers of Huntsville con-
ducted the hearing here at the re-
quest of Judge Willis McGregor,
regular criminal court jurist, be-
cause most of the witnesses reside
in this vicinity. -
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month.
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organization in
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